With difficulty, Hudson persuaded him to rejoin the ship, and they sailed from Iceland.

A sharp pain lanced across Nick's chest and a bubble of air escaped from his tortured lungs, joining dozens of others that sailed lazily toward the surface like helium balloons rising into the sky.

Ra II, a ship built from papyrus, was successfully sailed across the Atlantic by Thor Heyerdahl proving that it was possible to cross the Atlantic from Africa using such boats in early epochs of history.

He succeeded in crossing the Atlantic from Morocco to Barbados after a two-month voyage of 6, 100 km with Ra II in 1970, thus conclusively proving that boats such as the Ra could have sailed with the Canary Current across the Atlantic in prehistoric times.

They landed on 9 October on Cyprus from where they sailed to Acre.

In January 1941, Weil and his family sailed from Marseille to New York.

Phillip's fleet sailed from Portsmouth in May 1787.

In late 1792 Phillip, whose health was suffering from the poor diet, at last received permission to leave, and on 11 December 1792 he sailed in the ship Atlantic, taking with him many specimens of plants and animals.

Paul of Tarsus sailed for Europe for the first time from Alexandria Troas and returned there from Europe ( it was there that the episode of the raising of Eutychus later occurred ).

The traditional legend has it that Byzas from Megara ( a town near Athens ), founded Byzantium in 657 BC, when he sailed northeast across the Aegean Sea.

One of the incidents which led to the creation of the Basel Convention was the Khian Sea waste disposal incident, in which a ship carrying incinerator ash from the city of Philadelphia in the United States after having dumped half of its load on a beach in Haiti, was forced away where it sailed for many months, changing its name several times.

The battle was the climax of a naval campaign that had ranged across the Mediterranean during the previous three months, as a large French convoy sailed from Toulon to Alexandria, carrying an expeditionary force under General Napoleon Bonaparte.

Bonaparte's armada sailed from Toulon on 19 May 1798, making rapid progress through the Ligurian Sea and collecting more ships at Genoa before sailing southwards along the Sardinian coast, passing Sicily on 7 June.

On 22 June, Nelson encountered a brig sailing from Ragusa and was told that the French had sailed eastwards from Malta on 16 June.

This might mean that he sailed off from Hamburg or Bremen instead of some port in Baltic Sea, since the later account by Adam of Bremen gives the distance of Scania and Birka to be only 5 days at sea.

The Persians sailed down the coast of Attica, and landed at the bay of Marathon, roughly from Athens, on the advice of the exiled Athenian tyrant Hippias ( who had accompanied the expedition ).

Just hours later, an unknown steamer sailed near the lightship along the track of the Deering, and ignored all signals from the lightship.

Christopher Columbus, on his first voyage to the Americas, sailed south from what is now the Bahamas to explore the northeast coast of Cuba and the northern coast of Hispaniola.

* SS City of Columbus, a passenger steamer that sailed from Boston to Savannah and sank off Martha's Vineyard

The University was founded in 1829 following a donation by William Chalmers ( 1748 – 1811 ), a director of the Swedish East India Company, whose ships sailed across the world to supply Europe with goods from the East.

The first records of his life date from 1689, when he was a member of a French-English pirate crew that sailed in the Caribbean.

It was Blommaert, however, who stated that in 1600 eight companies sailed on the coast of Africa, competing each other with the supply of copper, possibly from the kingdom of Loanga.

He spent 1860 in Kentucky until December 21, when he sailed for California to take command of the Department of the Pacific.

They sailed for nine days before washing ashore on Mount Parnassus.

He sailed for home on 10 August 1250.

The U. S. Army brought truck-towed Bofors 40 mm AA guns along with truck-mounted units fitted with mechanized turrets when they sailed, first for Great Britain and then onto France.

They sailed for Boston in 1635.

Christopher Marlowe's play Tamburlane the Great was first performed in London in 1587, three years after the formal opening of English-Ottoman trade relations when William Harborne sailed for Constantinople as agent of the Levant Company.

Teach and his crews sailed the vessel south along Saint Vincent and the Grenadines to Bequia, where they disembarked her crew and cargo, and converted the ship for their own use.

The crew of La Concorde were given the smaller of Teach's two sloops, which they renamed Mauvaise Rencontre ( Bad Meeting ), and sailed for Martinique.

On 19 August, Nelson sailed for Naples with Vanguard, Culloden and Alexander, leaving Hood in command of Zealous, Goliath, Swiftsure and the recently joined frigates to watch over French activities at Alexandria.

On 23 October, following the transfer of the wounded to the military hospital and provision of basic supplies, the convoy sailed on towards Lisbon, leaving Bellerophon and Majestic behind for more extensive repairs.

The remaining prizes underwent basic repairs and then sailed for Britain, eventually arriving at Plymouth.

The Persian force then sailed for Attica, landing in the bay near the town of Marathon.

The Chinese armies conquered Vietnam for around 20 years, while the Chinese fleet sailed the China seas and the Indian Ocean, cruising as far as the east coast of Africa.

When Gail refused to go along with the plan, Joe sailed away and in the attempt, drowned for real, leaving Gail to be charged with his murder.

Thus short-handed, Kidd sailed for New York City, capturing a French vessel en route ( which was legal under the terms of his commission ).

Both Giovanni Caboto ( John Cabot ) and Giovanni da Verrazzano are reported to have sailed in or near Maritime waters during their voyages of discovery for England and France respectively.

In October 1775, the Gaspée went downriver, and her prisoners were transferred to the Adamant, which then sailed for England.

In January 1776, Allen and his men were put on board HMS Soledad, which sailed for Cork, Ireland.

Rachel White Scheuering writes that for one mission to launch a rocket, he sailed with a naval operation to the Arctic, and also conducted rocket launching from ships at the equator.

He sailed first to Cuba, to pick up supplies Cortés had arranged for him, where Governor Velázquez convinced him to go and claim the colony he was to found as his own.

On January 3, 1841, he sailed from Fairhaven, Massachusetts on the whaler Acushnet, which was bound for the Pacific Ocean.

On the outbreak of hostilities on 18 October, the Greek fleet, placed under the newly promoted Rear Admiral Pavlos Kountouriotis, sailed for the island of Lemnos, occupying it three days later ( although fighting continued on the island until 27 October ) and establishing an anchorage at Moudros Bay.